This was launched by BUAV supporter Ricky Gervais.

This was launched by BUAV supporter Ricky Gervais.

The BUAV was also closely involved in the lobbying which led to the adoption in the European Union of the 7th Amendment to the Cosmetics Directive, which will effectively ban both the testing of cosmetics products and their ingredients on animals and also the sale of products in the EU which have been animal-tested anywhere in the world.

The company also said there was group housing and pair housing for some monkeys, but the BUAV chose not to show that.

Frances Power Cobbe founded the BUAV in 1898.

The British Union for the Abolition of Vivisection ( BUAV ) estimates that 100 million vertebrates are experimented on around the world every year, 10 – 11 million of them in the European Union.

In 2012, the British Union for the Abolition of Vivisection ( BUAV ) joined with the New England Anti-Vivisection Society to establish a new international organisation to campaign against the testing of cosmetics on animals — Cruelty Free International.

In 2012, the BUAV joined with the New England Anti-Vivisection Society to establish a new international organisation to campaign against the testing of cosmetics on animals — Cruelty Free International.

In recent years, the BUAV has focused on a number of new areas, including the promotion of non-animal tested products ; the European Union's REACH proposal to test tens of thousands of chemicals on millions of animals ; and the use of non-human primates in experimentation.

The BUAV helps consumers to identify and purchase products that have not been tested on animals through its Humane Cosmetics and Humane Household Products Standards ( HCS and HHPS ).

A list of approved companies is available and regularly updated on the BUAV website.

In February 2008, the High Commission of Malaysia confirmed to the BUAV that a ban on the primate trade would be reinstated following the BUAV investigation.

* The archives of the BUAV ( ref U DBV ) are held at the Hull History Centre and details of holdings on its online catalogue.

Founded in 1898 by Frances Power Cobbe, the Irish writer and suffragette, the BUAV engages in education, research, lobbying, investigations, undercover work in laboratories, and legal cases that challenge the legitimacy of using animals in experiments.

Animal rights, and some animal welfare, organizations — such as PETA and BUAV — question the legitimacy of it, arguing that it is cruel, poor scientific practice, poorly regulated, that medical progress is being held back by misleading animal models, that some of the tests are outdated, that it cannot reliably predict effects in humans, that the costs outweigh the benefits, or that animals have an intrinsic right not to be used for experimentation.

National Cruelty-Free Week is an event in the United Kingdom every year arranged by the BUAV.

Photograph taken by Friedrich Mülln for the BUAV inside Covance, Münster, 2003

In 1992, an undercover investigation by the British Union for the Abolition of Vivisection ( BUAV ) in found high mortality rates among the monkeys from enteritis and pneumonia, while other monkeys were being killed they were underweight or suffered from deformities.

BUAV also witnessed rough handling by staff, who were alleged to have been inadequately trained.

A marmoset before being brain damaged, filmed undercover by BUAV inside Cambridge University, taken from.

A marmoset after being brain damaged, filmed undercover by BUAV inside Cambridge University, taken from.

For example, although such models are now widely used to study Parkinson's disease, the British anti-vivisection interest group BUAV argues that these models only superficially resemble the disease symptoms, without the same time course or cellular pathology.

Most tests involve testing ingredients rather than finished products, but according to BUAV, manufacturers believe these tests overestimate the toxic effects of substances ; they therefore repeat the tests using their finished products to obtain a less toxic label.

The British Union for the Abolition of Vivisection ( BUAV ) raised concerns about primate experiments at the University of Cambridge in 2002.

In a series of court cases, the BUAV alleged that monkeys had undergone surgery to induce a stroke, and were left alone after the procedure for 15 hours overnight.

Another primatologist, Stephen Brend, told BUAV that using monkeys in such a stressed state is bad science, and trying to extrapolate useful data in such circumstances is what he called an untenable proposition.

The British Union for the Abolition of Vivisection ( BUAV ) is a British animal protection and advocacy group that campaigns for the abolition of all animal experiments.

The BUAV acts as the secretariat of the European Coalition to End Animal Experiments ( ECEAE ), established in 1990.

On 30 January 2008, the BUAV won a victory over the Home Office when an information tribunal agreed that experiment summaries are biased towards emphasising the positive aspects of research.

The BUAV argues that this inevitably means any negative aspects such as animal suffering are downplayed.

The BUAV is opposed to any form of violence or intimidation in the name of animal rights or animal welfare.

The BUAV is pursuing a judicial review against the Home Office as a result of its findings in the Cambridge investigation.

At first glance this appears strange: of all people, was not America founded by rugged individualists who established a new way of life still inspiring `` undeveloped '' societies abroad??

William Coddington, who was running the colony, felt constrained to move seven miles south where, with others -- as mentioned above -- he founded Newport.

In the final analysis his contribution to American historiography was founded on almost intuitive insights into religion, economics, and Darwinism, the three factors which conditioned his search for a law of history.

When founded by Franklin the Gazette was a weekly family newspaper and under its new name its format remained that of a newspaper but its columns gradually contained more and more fiction, poetry, and literary essays.

He was named Product Manager of the Special Products Division of Sprague when it was founded in 1958, and was later promoted to his present post.

There, Mother was received by the scions of aristocratic lines which are dominated by the Budweisers ( of beer derivation ), the Chalmers ( of underwear origin ), and the Heinzes ( whose forbears founded a nationally famous trade in pickles ).

The Chinese world view during the Han dynasty, when the Lo Shu seems to have been at the height of its popularity, was based in large part on the teachings of the Yin-Yang and Five-Elements School, which was traditionally founded by Tsou Yen.

It was under the tutelage of the Guru that Bhai Kanhaiya subsequently founded a volunteer corps for altruism.

The single largest organization of Anthropologists is the American Anthropological Association ( AAA ), which was founded in 1903.

During this time most of what is known as ethnologie was restricted to museums, such as the Musée de l ' Homme founded by Paul Rivet, and anthropology had a close relationship with studies of folklore.

He was worshipped as Acraephius ( ; Ἀκραιφιος, Akraiphios, literally " Acraephian ") or Acraephiaeus ( ; Ἀκραιφιαίος, Akraiphiaios, literally " Acraephian ") in the Boeotian town of Acraephia ( Ἀκραιφία ), reputedly founded by his son Acraepheus ; and as Smintheus ( ; Σμινθεύς, Smintheus, " Sminthian "— that is, " of the town of Sminthos or Sminthe ") near the Troad town of Hamaxitus.

He was the third son of the writer and schoolmaster Leonard Huxley and his first wife, Julia Arnold, who founded Prior's Field School.

He founded Interview Magazine and was the author of numerous books, including The Philosophy of Andy Warhol and Popism: The Warhol Sixties.

The American Film Institute was founded in 1967 as a national arts organization to preserve the legacy of American film heritage, educate the next generation of filmmakers and honor the artists and their work.

Milne was an early screenwriter for the nascent British film industry, writing four stories filmed in 1920 for the company Minerva Films ( founded in 1920 by the actor Leslie Howard and his friend and story editor Adrian Brunel ).

The club was originally founded as a football team in 1891, with the name Buenos Aires English High School although it was obliged to change its name to Alumni Athletic Club ( the name was proposed by a former student of the English High School ) in 1901.

In 1949, Camus founded the Group for International Liaisons within the Revolutionary Union Movement after his split with Garry Davis ' movement Citizens of the World, which the surrealist André Breton was also a member.

It was founded in 1991 and is a training school for students of archaeology and anthropology.

Named in honour of Adelaide of Saxe-Meiningen, queen consort to King William IV, the city was founded in 1836 as the planned capital for a freely settled British province in Australia.

In 1867 gas street lighting was implemented, the University of Adelaide was founded in 1874, the South Australian Art Gallery opened in 1881 and the Happy Valley Reservoir opened in 1896.